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by barnaby 12y ago
Whiteout.io is a chrome app for email, plus an android app with key-synch between the two. It's still early stages, so it has some issues (like indexing all your emails, since forever, and overheating your computer). But it's ver
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by barnaby 12y ago
Yeah, I use mailvelope with my close friends and family. It's not yet easy enough for my parents generation to "get it" but if it's set up for them they can muster through it. The problem with plugins though is that very
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by barnaby 12y ago
This is very cool. Thank you for working on it. I do know a team whom you should work with: keybase.io Keybase.io have an early-level product which would help with your keyserver issue. It has a CORS-enabled API, a commandline tool, an onl
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by barnaby 12y ago
Fair point. It's most likely nothing nefarious, but who knows, maybe they log everything and will one day face a data breach like Sony? Maybe they data mine it? IRL if somebody intercepted all of your mail, opened the envelope and then
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by barnaby 12y ago
Exactly, those media servers are in the plane.
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by barnaby 12y ago
This post assumes that GoGo are doing a MITM simply to block YouTube in order to prevent their network from being congested. My assumptions would be that 1) GoGo are blocking youtube in favor of their in-flight paid media services not just
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by barnaby 12y ago
I remember when people used to make these arguments with Java and PHP. "You don't need a framework, just write your JSP templates to have database calls with SQL and tons of Java code". BLEH! I'm glad Struts, then Sprin
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by barnaby 12y ago
Good article. I wonder why Mailpile are targeting difficult use-cases such as activists, journalists, etc. It feels like every PGP provider aims for this, but OTR encryption tools aim for a much easier use case: average users who just want
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by barnaby 12y ago
:-) It's technically easier but organizationally more difficult and time consuming.
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by barnaby 12y ago
>> But still. OTR (and the enhanced/modified version of it TextSecure is using) is probably the easiest to use way to communicate in a reasonably secure fashion, and it'd would be fantastic to see it used by hundreds of mill
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by barnaby 12y ago
Agreed. Going from a NZ bank to another country's bank isn't that simple anymore. Using an international currency makes it equally simple anywhere in the world. Bitcoin already has a better user experience than banks. Just give it
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by barnaby 12y ago
I assume any "no fees" clause means that they're not taking fees at this time. It doesn't mean "no fees anywhere in the system". So there very likely is a 3% fee to the user, just not from snapchat.
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by barnaby 12y ago
Could this work with Mailvelope? Because I prefer to send my PGP mails right from the google webmail.
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by barnaby 12y ago
+1 for using Santorum as one of the dirty words.
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by barnaby 12y ago
Have you seen the election results in France recently? FN might as well be called the "normal right" in France at this point.
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by barnaby 12y ago
Aren't Open Source privacy apps more preferable? Shouldn't we all be talking about ChatSecure, Redphone, Textsecure, Mailvelope, Cryptocat, GPG, EnigMail, etc.? And about the companies that offer these programs as a service? While
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by barnaby 12y ago
To the people who said that Bitcoin is a failure because it can't scale, reading this must be beautiful. Bitcoin will scale to "Visa network" levels in no time.
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by barnaby 12y ago
A veritable explosion of innovation is coming our way. This decentralized stock exchange is just a hint of what is to come. Technologies using bitcoin, and technologies built on bitcoin, are the next thing that will change the world. Don&#x
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by barnaby 12y ago
:-) Well said. I read this after I posted elsewhere on this thread about how the price drop is caused by adoption so in fact we are buying _utility_ with the value that we lost. Once we've bought enough utility the price trend will lik
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by barnaby 12y ago
Bitcoin has lost some value recently, yes, but what it's bought with that loss is increased merchant adoption. Currently merchants instantly sell bitcoin which causes the downwards pressure on the price you've been seeing. However
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by barnaby 12y ago
Today. Yes, today that's the limitation. But don't confuse the current stage of development for the future product. When twitter launched it couldn't handle much, today it's got phone-network level stability. Bitcoin wil
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by barnaby 12y ago
I recall reading that myspace in the super early days used to have prostitutes and cocain at their Christmas party.
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by barnaby 12y ago
Good point. This app would make more sense with bitcoin in order to avoid the fees, and would have several benefits over paying rent online through a bank (or over having to write a check by hand and mail it in). Some examples: 1) Instead o
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by barnaby 15y ago
So then could Reddit and HN be considered more addictive than Heroin? In all seriousness.
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by barnaby 15y ago
I agree. This sounds like the same reaction. People were like "oh this is stupid because it's different". Turns out it did solve the needs of a different interface. HUD + Unity (just like iOS before it) will simplify how to use menus on a t
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by barnaby 15y ago
I would argue it's not moving fast enough. We are in the middle of a very fast-paced transition in human-computer interaction. New form-factors like tablets are being adopted rapidly (nearly doubling over this holiday season alone). A speec
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by barnaby 15y ago
Interesting that Yoga is marketed heavily for people who sit in front of a computer for hours a day, even though the article points out that it's more dangerous for them because they're not already exercising the way that the people for who
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by barnaby 15y ago
In the 1950's and 1960's there emerged a fad for giving personality tests to people, and the then train those who passed to become software programmers that would work in a factory. A lot of the really bad practices that hit us with long-te
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by barnaby 15y ago
THANK YOU for posting this! I always had to figure out how to test my code AFTER the fact when reading Django documentation. This makes it much easier to write good code. Thanks!
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by barnaby 15y ago
I'm looking to branch out after having used qUnit for the last year or so. Looks like this framework does mocking REALLY well (which I feel like I can't do well in qUnit). But it's v8 specific, so I can't test if Internet Exploder won't scr

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